Title: Face Detection
Author: mdifelice
Published: <strong>September 28, 2018</strong>
Last modified: October 28, 2019

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Face Detection

 By [mdifelice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mdifelice/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/face-detection.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/face-detection/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/face-detection/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/face-detection/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/face-detection/)

## Description

This plugin allows to generate cropped thumbnails without cutting heads or faces.
It detects whether uploaded images have faces in it thus when generating cropped
thumbnails based on such image, they will be centered in the largest face found.

## Screenshots

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 * Generated thumbnails for an image before installing the plugin.
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 * Generated thumbnails for an image analyzed by the Face Detection plugin.

## FAQ

  What does this plugin do?

This plugin modifies those cropped thumbnails generated from uploaded images in 
such way whether there is a face inside that image, it will be in the center of 
the generated thumbnail. That way, it avoids cut heads or faces when displaying 
thumbnails of your images.

  How does it detect faces?

This plugin uses a custom WordPress/PHP port of a [Java implementation](https://code.google.com/archive/p/jviolajones/)
of the [Viola/Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%E2%80%93Jones_object_detection_framework)
object detection algorithm. Very technical stuff. Basically, you need to know that
it is not 100% effective. But the idea is to improve its effectiveness in subsequent
versions.

  How I make it work?

By default, the plugin is disabled for all the image uploads. It is done that way
because the process to detect faces is very heavy and maybe you do not want to wait
that each image you upload to the server be processed for this plugin.

You can enable _Face Detection_ for all uploads by going to _Settings -> Media_.
But also, you can regenerate face-detected thumbnails for each image by going to
_Media_ and editing a particular image.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Face Detection” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mdifelice ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mdifelice/)

[Translate “Face Detection” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/face-detection)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/face-detection/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/face-detection/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/face-detection/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/face-detection/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated: **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations: **10+**
 *  Tested up to: **5.3.21**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/face-detection/)
 * Tags:
 * [face detection](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/face-detection/)[thumbnails](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/thumbnails/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/face-detection/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mdifelice ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mdifelice/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/face-detection/)